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Level Anacostia to a flat field? What are you crazy? Much of Anacostia is solid working class row houses. Also some areas of well kept single family homes. The housing projects and low rent apartments concentrated east of the river seem to generate most of the crime. But much of Anacostia is just fine.
What's with pouring investment in Anacostia to make it the next Dupont/Georgetown? Not to say it isn't needed, but from what I'm reading and hearing, the Rhode Island Ave corridor is going to be the next gentrification "hot spot". Heck, if I was to take a guess which neighborhoods East of the River have more potential, it would be Deanwood, Benning Road, and East Capitol St corridors.
Anacostia's (and for that matter, the entire EotR's) problem is the housing projects. Remove those, and you have the potential to create a mini old-town Alexandria in the District, which is a more reasonable vision for Anacostia.
Does anyone remember Buzzard's Point (when the Military District of Washington was there) and the bar called Track's on M Street across from the Navy Metro in the early 90's. I use to go to Track's there and I worked for the Military District. (I lived in Dupont Circle). Buzzards Point is no longer there and Track's is gone...now the new stadium. So that area has changed significantly in the last years. I retired in 1996 and left D.C. which I miss a lot. But am happy to see all the gentrification...and Anacostia will one day be Gerogetown II.
Does anyone remember Buzzard's Point (when the Military District of Washington was there) and the bar called Track's on M Street across from the Navy Metro in the early 90's. I use to go to Track's there and I worked for the Military District. (I lived in Dupont Circle). Buzzards Point is no longer there and Track's is gone...now the new stadium. So that area has changed significantly in the last years. I retired in 1996 and left D.C. which I miss a lot. But am happy to see all the gentrification...and Anacostia will one day be Gerogetown II.
Newsflash, that's the ONLY way that areas can clean up. Bullsoze the projects, move those people off deepter into PG County or Baltimore, then build nicer new stuff for real working people.
What exactly do these "working class" people who live in Anacostia do? There can't be that many drug dealers in DC Metro can there be? Most of Anacostia looks like Baltimore
Anacostia doesn't have anything like the abandoned and boarded up houses that you see in parts of Baltimore. Use the Google street view and scope out the row house neighborhoods along the river. How many boarded up or falling down houses can you see?
Does anyone remember Buzzard's Point (when the Military District of Washington was there) and the bar called Track's on M Street across from the Navy Metro in the early 90's. I use to go to Track's there and I worked for the Military District. (I lived in Dupont Circle). Buzzards Point is no longer there and Track's is gone...now the new stadium. So that area has changed significantly in the last years. I retired in 1996 and left D.C. which I miss a lot. But am happy to see all the gentrification...and Anacostia will one day be Gerogetown II.
I used to hang out some at Buzzard's Point way back in the late '60s and early '70s. A cat I knew, former Goldwater speech writer turned radical lefty Karl Hess, lived on a house boat off the point. I enjoyed hanging out with Karl and his old lady but the neighborhood was really seedy and run down in those days.
Anacostia doesn't have anything like the abandoned and boarded up houses that you see in parts of Baltimore. Use the Google street view and scope out the row house neighborhoods along the river. How many boarded up or falling down houses can you see?
The housing stock is much better in Anacostia, but it's still a retail desert. Tons of boarded up shops, and the ones still around are just the typical payday loan, liquor store, quick-e-mart types with tons of loitering at all hours. Not exactly the sort of place you'd want to walk around too often.
The housing stock is much better in Anacostia, but it's still a retail desert. Tons of boarded up shops, and the ones still around are just the typical payday loan, liquor store, quick-e-mart types with tons of loitering at all hours. Not exactly the sort of place you'd want to walk around too often.
Yes, the commercial strips are pretty sad. Still the area has some good bones. If the commercial strips could get some new life it would be a new ballgame in Anacostia. It will never be a Dupont Circle, Georgetown, or Old Town, but maybe something along the lines of Brookland or the decent working class neighborhoods of Far Northeast.
Yes, the commercial strips are pretty sad. Still the area has some good bones. If the commercial strips could get some new life it would be a new ballgame in Anacostia. It will never be a Dupont Circle, Georgetown, or Old Town, but maybe something along the lines of Brookland or the decent working class neighborhoods of Far Northeast.
Yes, the commercial strips are pretty sad. Still the area has some good bones. If the commercial strips could get some new life it would be a new ballgame in Anacostia. It will never be a Dupont Circle, Georgetown, or Old Town, but maybe something along the lines of Brookland or the decent working class neighborhoods of Far Northeast.
Never is a strong word. I would understand if you said it won't be like Dupont, Georgetown, or Old Town in the next 5, 10 or 15 years. But to say "never" is completely absurd and ridiculous. Cities last for centuries. DC will be here long after all of us.
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